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Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'The motion of viscous liquid due to uniform and periodic motion maintained over a segment of an infinite plane boundary' by W J Harrison

Reference number: RR/19/62

Date: 08 November 1912

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Considers the suggestion that the author based their methods on an experimentally unsound theory is only relevant at the edges, and that the author's method of overcoming the problems 'is as good as any other'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1913]

Endorsed on verso as received 9 November 1912.

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RR/19/62
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08 November 1912
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4 pages
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William McFadden Orr, Referee's report by William McFadden Orr, on a paper 'The motion of viscous liquid due to uniform and periodic motion maintained over a segment of an infinite plane boundary' by W J Harrison, 08 November 1912, RR/19/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_62/referees-report-by-william-mcfadden-orr-on-a-paper-the-motion-of-viscous-liquid-due-to-uniform-and-periodic-motion-maintained-over-a-segment-of-an-infinite-plane-boundary-by-w-j-harrison, accessed on 15 March 2025

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